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STEVE RUSHTON
Masters of Reality
Vanessa Ohlraun (Ed.)
Steve Rushton’s research is an investigation into feedback, social control, and the contemporary culture of “self-performance,” developing a thorough analysis of the techniques and processes of information management and subjectivization in Western society since the second half of the twentieth century. This book, second in a series inaugurated by the Piet Zwart Institute, articulates a clear relationship between diverse subjects, drawing from a broad range of archival materials from military experiments in social psychology to works by Don DeLillo and Ant Farm. It includes texts on art and media linked to theories of cybernetics, Rushton’s collaborative projects with Rod Dickinson and Thomson & Craighead and fictional and allegorical texts, giving these observations narrative form.
5 x 7 1/3 inches/ 192 pp/ 20 b&w
ISBN: 978-3-943365-22-1
Retail Price: $24.00
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THINKING THROUGH PAINTING
Reflexivity and Agency Beyond the Canvas
Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum & Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)
Painting appears to have dispelled its own once-uncontested material basis. No longer synonymous with a flat picture plane hung on the wall, painting in its current incarnations tends instead to emphasize the apparatus of its appearance and the conduits of its circulation. Thinking through Painting, from the Institut Für Kunstkritik series, investigates painting’s traits and reception through contri- butions by Peter Geimer and Isabelle Graw. With a focus on Luc Tuymans, Geimer questions the claims commonly made for contemporary painting’s “superior” reflexivity based on its distance from everyday experiences of immersion. Graw situates painting’s residual specificity in the semiotic activity of mark- making rather than materiality, demonstrating that painting’s perseverance is grounded in the suggestion that it can attain agency as a “quasi-person.”
5 x 7 1/2 inches/ 70 pp/ 7 b&w
ISBN: 978-3-943365-10-8
Retail Price: $17.00
INSTITUT FÜR KUNSTKRITIK, FRANKFURT